Re: Exegesis of a Stop Sign

From: Jim Armstrong (jarmstro@qwest.net)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 17:13:02 EST

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    Oh dear, it's flawed. Stop signs have 8 corners. Or were you referring
    to the four corners of the square root? JimA

    Stephen J. Krogh wrote:

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    >>-----Original Message-----
    >>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
    >>Behalf Of John Burgeson
    >>Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 2:11 PM
    >>To: asa@calvin.edu
    >>Subject: Exegesis of a Stop Sign
    >>
    >>
    >>You are a Seminary student. Suppose you're travelling to work and
    >>you see a
    >>stop sign. What do you do? That depends on how you exegete the stop sign.
    >>
    >>1. A postmodernist deconstructs the sign (knocks it over with his car),
    >>ending forever the tyranny of the north-south traffic over the east-west
    >>traffic.
    >>
    >>2. Similarly, a Marxist sees a stop sign as an instrument of
    >>class conflict.
    >>He concludes that the bourgeoisie use the north-south road and
    >>obstruct the
    >>progress of the workers on the east-west road.
    >>
    >>
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    > 14. A "prophetic" preacher notices that the square root of the sum of
    >the numeric representations of the letters S-T-O-P (sigma-tau-omicron-pi in
    >Greek), multiplied by 40 (the number of testing), and divided by 4 (the four
    >corners) equals 666, the dreaded "mark of the beast." All STOPS are
    >therefore satanic.
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